Does anyone have the lyrics to Joe Fleming's little poem set by Phil Garland to what sounds like a variant of 'Leaving of Liverpool'? It has numerous place names. By a Google search, I found there are places in New Zealand that sound close to what Garland sings: Tomoka, Timaru, Amaru, Para and Duntroon, but I could find nothing like 'Wadswash dyke'. I would like comfirmation or correction of the place names and the incomplete line completed if anyone can oblige. I think the poem has been published in a Phil Garland songbook which perhaps some Kiwi 'catter may have. Here's what I hear:

FAREWELL TO GERALDINE
(J.Fleming/Trad/P.Garland)

Chorus:
Oh, fare well to you, my Geraldine
I am now upon the track
I'm travellin' down that long and weary road
With a swag all on me back

I'm headin' towards Tomoka town
And if work I cannot find
I'll make me way unto Wadswash dyke
Leave Tomoka far behind

Chorus

Perhaps I'll call in at Timaru
And round there take a look
But if no farmer should want me there
I'll drop on down to the ?

Chorus

I'll push ahead then to Amaru
The Para and Duntroon
Where farmers often work late at night
By the pale light of the moon

Chorus

When harvest days are over
And corn is in the sack
I'll shoulder bluey once again
By the rattler I'll be comin' back

Chorus

Source: transcribed from Phil Garland 'Under The Southern Cross' Kiwi Pacific Records CD SLC-239.

--Stewie.